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proposed extensions at the sewage disposal works in
question with a view to overcoming the difficulty complained
of.
The works of improvement to the Beverley Brook
and Coombe Brook, noted last year, have been steadily
progressing throughout the year.
The samples taken from the Hogsmill River also indicated
bad river water. If and when the proposed joint
sewage scheme materialises great improvement must
result.
This scheme is to centralise the sewage disposal
works of a number of districts, namely Kingston-uponThames;
Surbiton; Epsom and Ewell and this district,
and to convey the effluent direct into the Thames instead
of, as at present, from the various works into the
Ilogsmill.
At the close of the year the position in regard to this
proposal had altered little from that reported in my last
Annual Report, but it is hoped that during 1939 the existing
differences would be cleared up so that the scheme
could progress.
CLOSET ACCOMMODATION.
Practically all the houses in the district have water
closets connected with the main sewerage system. Only
in a few isolated instances are earth closets known to
exist.
PUBLIC CLEANSING.
House refuse is collected weekly from houses in
mechanically driven freighters and disposed of by burning
at the Council's destructor at California Road.
Owing to the growth of the district the present
destructor has to be used to its limit and a proportion of
the house refuse is now disposed of by controlled tipping
on land adjoining the sewage disposal works.
During the year the combustion chambers and flues
of the Refuse Destructor were remodelled in order to
increase the capacity.